Landmark Judgments

Category: Crime against women
In the public interest litigation under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner, a registered NGO, seek to highlight the plight of the acid attack… Read More

Category: Citizenship
This Petition prayed for direction against the Union of India to grant citizenship to the Chakma and Hajong Tribals who migrated to India in 1964-1969 and were settled in the… Read More

Category: Equality
It was held that religion incorporates the particular beliefs that a group of people subscribe to. The exclusion of some and inclusion of a particular segment of denomination… Read More

In the instant case the mother of the minor child is a postgraduate from a renowned foreign university and was holding college professorship in a foreign country and there was allegation of her… Read More

The instant writ petition came to be filed in the circumstances that Rajasthan state Human rights Commission has been without the Chairperson and secretary from the last five years or more and the… Read More

Held: Since award passed by Labour Court in favour of respondent had attained finality, orders passed by labour court below refusing to interfere with order dated 16.4.2007 passed by the Industrial… Read More

Held: any person can adopt to child under Juvenile Justice (care and Protection of children) Act, 2000 (as amended in 2006). The prospective parents have option to employ the provisions of S.41 of JJ… Read More

Held: Matter remanded to various High Courts of the Country by directing them to examine relevant issues of Coal-fired thermal power plants. There is double-duty of state to protect unfortunate… Read More

Held: Judicial review is available where mercy petition is rejected without consideration the supervening circumstances of delay, mental illness and other circumstances/factors. Right to seek mercy… Read More

Held: workmen cannot be forced to work under different management. High Court was justified in issuing directions for retirement/ retrenchment compensation to outgoing workmen as per normal rules and… Read More

In a historic decision the Delhi High Court ordered compensation for violation of constitutional and reproductive rights of two impoverished women. The judgment will have immense health policy… Read More

Held: Employer cannot make a demand for retrenchment and get the ensuing industrial dispute referred for adjudication in terms of S.10 (1) without first exhausting procedures for retrenchment under… Read More

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